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| xander.XVII Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4851 days ago 189 posts - 215 votes  Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC1 Studies: French | Message 33 of 94 30 August 2011 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love hungarian, though it has not a direct usefulness.
Furthermore I can withstand to Estonian, although I haven't begun to study it yet, I am firmly decided to do it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ygangerg Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5115 days ago 100 posts - 140 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, French Studies: German | Message 34 of 94 31 August 2011 at 4:34am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm a fan of learning Romance languages, and I'm maybe somewhere around a B1 in Arabic. So... Maltese has been calling me from its precious little isle for a couple years now. Not sure if I'll get to it though.
I wonder, Xander, being Italian, do you know anything about learning Maltese? Do you know anyone who's tried? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5194 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 35 of 94 31 August 2011 at 7:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I have had an unhealthy obsession with Italian since I first went there in 6th grade (1996). Stemming from that I've
always been interested in Latin and just finally broke down and bought Wheelock's (50% off at Borders!). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6500 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 36 of 94 31 August 2011 at 10:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I had decided to limit myself to the Indoeuropean languages, but when I visited the Philippines I bought a language guide to Cebuan which gave a lot of sentences with minor differences - which is much better for study purposes than the usual run of totally different constructions in other language guides and even textbooks. I finished that tour in Manila where I bought my most 'forward looking' Latin dictionary, an Indonesian dictionary and three small dictionaries (partly with short morphologic sections) of Filipino/Tagalog. I saw a big fat dictionary, but couldn't carry it in my luggage (I only travel with hand luggage), and my one attempt to buy something similar (or the same book?) through the internet didn't succeed. So while I did work on the grammar I had to drop learning the language because my small dictionaries simply didn't contain enough vocabulary to decode even simple genuine texts.
Last year later I visited Singapore, Brunei, Sarawak and Kuala Lumpur, and I became interested in the local language (called Bahasa, which simply means 'language'). I bought a dictionary which functioned well, but couldn't find much literature about science or history in Bahasa. After I came home I found out that it is much easier to find materials in Bahasa Indonesian than in Bahasa Malaysian, so I decided to switch to Indonesian - but with the intention of learning Bahasa Malaysia afterwards - the two language are closely related (almost like Danish and Norwegian or Swedish). I have still not given up my original plan about learning the Indoeuropean languages of Europe before anything else - now there is just one tiny exception to the rule. And oh yes, Esperanto too, but I consider that one as an adopted member of the Indoeuropean family. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6580 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 37 of 94 31 August 2011 at 11:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I think the formulation of this thread is needlessly pessimistic. Why would you have to
resist a language? Why does it have to be some kind of struggle for resistance? Do you fear that you will be conquered and oppressed should your resistance falter? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JLA Triglot Newbie France Joined 4694 days ago 25 posts - 33 votes Speaks: French*, English, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 38 of 94 31 August 2011 at 11:26am | IP Logged | ||
Hehe, no more like weeks of "suffering" and doubt before you start to think "yes, maybe I will manage it". And actually, this thread would make me rather optimistic, after all the "what would I gain if I were to learn language X" threads I have seen, it's nice to see that so much people keep learning a language simply because they fell in love with it :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| graaaaaagh Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4631 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 39 of 94 31 August 2011 at 12:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love French. I feel so cool when I speak it; it's got a very hard-hitting sound. It's got some really fun turns of phrase. I really like its orthography as well. Hearing it, tho, isn't much different from hearing my native language, in that I'm used to it enough that it's pretty much just the unmarked 'sound of speech' (then again, I tend to listen even to English for its sounds). I've put all my other language-projects on hold until I've developed a higher degree of proficiency (which I'm doing just by watching movies and reading books - I've decided to avoid looking words up).
I used to adore German, and had got to a low-intermediate level in it a few months back, but lately I haven't been as interested in it. Every Finno-Ugric language I've heard/studied sounds absolutely beautiful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5137 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 40 of 94 31 August 2011 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am currently very crazy over Turkish language, as the history and culture along the ancient silkroad appeal to me a great deal...Furthermore, I hope that by learning Turkish language (and eventually Mongolian and Korean, and other Turkic languages), I could find the similarity/differences between these languages, the influence of one on the other, and also the Chinese dialect Hokkien, which seems to have a significant impact on the vocabulary of Korean and Japanese (perhaps due to its official usage during the Tang dynasty). Edited by noriyuki_nomura on 31 August 2011 at 1:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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